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Barry Gibb [1946-0] English
Rank: 102
Musician, Singer-songwriter


Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE is a British singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music. 

Famous, Teen



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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Everybody is a teenage idol. Teen
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure. Famous
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
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I'm very much a family person.
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I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
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The Bee Gees no longer exist.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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